Critical Distance Profile Type Writer

Michael Nardone is a writer and editor based in Montréal. His recent and forthcoming works include: Convivialities (a book of dialogues), Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo (a monograph on Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, co-edited with Edgar Picazo Merino), Aural Poetics (an edited work on sound and composition across the arts), Yellow Towel: A Score (a collaboration with Dana Michel), the Documents on Expanded Poetics book series (which he co-edits with Nathan Brown), The Transatlantic Conversation (a translation of Abigail Lang’s monograph on contemporary French and US poetry), and The Ritualites (a book of poems), as well as a range of essays and editorial works concerning the literary arts and other inscriptive practices. Formerly a postdoctoral research fellow at the Université de Montréal and a PennSound visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, Nardone completed a PhD…Find out more

Re’al Christian (MA, Hunter College; BS, New York University) is the Assistant Director of Editorial Initiatives at the Vera List Center, where she edits and manages the center’s publishing projects, including anthologies, artist books, exhibition booklets, communications, and the digital series Post/doc. As an independent writer, her work explores issues related to diasporas, movement, language, and ecology. Her essays, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, and ART PAPERS, where she is a Contributing Editor. She has written texts for catalogues and anthologies including And ever an edge (Studio Museum in Harlem), Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism (Paper Monument), Howardena Pindell: Numbers/Pathways/Grids (Garth Greenan and Dieu Donné), and On the…Find out more

Kathleen Foran-Spragge is an independent curator, writer, and researcher whose work explores how patterns of listening and sounding can be altered to foster relationships between humans and with the more-than-human. Her MFA thesis exhibition at OCAD University, What Passes Unspoken (2025), featured artworks that use sound and movement to bridge linguistic divides. She serves as Board Chair at Xpace Cultural Centre and is a member of the programming committee at InterAcess. Her practice is committed to supporting emerging artists, facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration, and strengthening community connections. While at OCAD, she hosted a podcast interviewing graduate students from across the university’s six programs about their Master’s research, available on the OCAD U Live YouTube channel.Find out more

Samantha Lance became the new Curator for the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (Bowmanville, Ontario) in October 2024. She holds a Master of Visual Studies in Curatorial Studies degree from the University of Toronto and a BFA with Distinction in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University. Her Graduating Exhibition, The Love that Remains, was on display at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto from May 1 to July 27, 2024. She continues to engage with contemporary art and the public as a freelance writer, guest speaker, and invited moderator. Samantha’s writing has been published by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, C Magazine, and the Master of Museum Studies Student Publication at U of T. She is a recipient of the John and Myrna…Find out more

Amin Alsaden is a curator, scholar, and educator whose work focuses on transnational solidarities and exchanges across cultural boundaries. His curatorial practice is committed to advancing social justice through the arts, and to disseminating more inclusive narratives that decenter existing canons and challenge hegemonic epistemological and power structures. His exhibitions invariably raise questions concerning the interrelated domains of geography, colonialism, extraction, organized violence, and displacement.

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